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Nasa to overhaul mission returning samples from Mars – here’s why it must and will go ahead

Nasa to overhaul mission returning samples from Mars – here’s why it must and will go ahead

Nasa puts great emphasis on delivering what its ten-year surveys of the community...

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Are tomorrow’s engineers ready to face AI’s ethical challenges?

Are tomorrow’s engineers ready to face AI’s ethical challenges?

A chatbot turns hostile. A test version of a Roomba vacuum collects images of users...

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Sex differences don’t disappear as a country’s equality develops – sometimes they become stronger

Sex differences don’t disappear as a country’s equality develops – sometimes they become stronger

The study covered a range of themes, from personality and cognitive functions to...

Society
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Earth Day 2024: 4 effective strategies to reduce household food waste

Earth Day 2024: 4 effective strategies to reduce household food waste

The global food system produces enough food for everyone, yet, in 2023, 333 million...

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Fossilized dinosaur eggshells can preserve amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, over millions of years

Fossilized dinosaur eggshells can preserve amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, over millions of years

As a scientist, lab work can sometimes get monotonous. But in 2017, while a Ph.D....

Health
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Fermented foods sustain both microbiomes and cultural heritage

Fermented foods sustain both microbiomes and cultural heritage

Many people around the world make and eat fermented foods. Millions in Korea alone...

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Body armour made from silk is being developed – but this apparently cutting-edge idea is centuries old

Body armour made from silk is being developed – but this apparently cutting-edge idea is centuries old

The researchers modified the genes of silkworms to make them produce spider silk...

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The rising flood of space junk is a risk to us on Earth – and governments are on the hook

The rising flood of space junk is a risk to us on Earth – and governments are on the hook

A piece of space junk recently crashed through the roof and floor of a man’s home...

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Stonehenge may have aligned with the Moon as well as the Sun

Stonehenge may have aligned with the Moon as well as the Sun

When it comes to its connection to the sky, Stonehenge is best known for its solar...

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Trillions of tonnes of carbon locked in soil has been left out of environmental models – and it’s on the move

Trillions of tonnes of carbon locked in soil has been left out of environmental models – and it’s on the move

We all know about the carbon in Earth’s atmosphere, and probably about the carbon...

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An anonymous coder nearly hacked a big chunk of the internet. How worried should we be?

An anonymous coder nearly hacked a big chunk of the internet. How worried should we be?

Outside the world of open-source software, it’s likely few people would have heard...

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We found three new species of extinct giant kangaroo – and we don’t know why they died out when their cousins survived

We found three new species of extinct giant kangaroo – and we don’t know why they died out when their cousins survived

For millions of years, giant animals or megafauna roamed the lands that are now...

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AI is making smart devices – watches, speakers, doorbells – easier to hack. Here’s how to stay safe

AI is making smart devices – watches, speakers, doorbells – easier to hack. Here’s how to stay safe

From asking our smart speakers for the weather to receiving personalised advice...

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Visualising the 1800s or designing wedding invitations: 6 ways you can use AI beyond generating text

Visualising the 1800s or designing wedding invitations: 6 ways you can use AI beyond generating text

As more than half of Australian office workers report using generative artificial...

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AI chatbots refuse to produce ‘controversial’ output − why that’s a free speech problem

AI chatbots refuse to produce ‘controversial’ output − why that’s a free speech problem

Google recently made headlines globally because its chatbot Gemini generated images...

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